With publicity comes humiliation.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.